Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-20
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.


at Dubuque.
The police OF Dubuque are shooting all IN
licensed dogs.
Lightning Tuesday did considerable dam.
age at Rockford.
Madrid reports The crops In that section al
most a total failure.
The ladies Of Burlington have presented
company II with a 500 Bag.
The ladies Of Burlington have presented
Company II with a 300 flag.
Iowa has not less than eighteen regularly
organized and prosperous colleges.
Wednesday the canning factory at Council
Bluffs packed 300 cans OF corn.
Wild grapes are very abundant In the Mis-
souri, Valley near Council Bluffs.
The saloons at West Point and Donnelson
were rsided Saturday and close.
Harvey Cross fell seventy feet at the new
coal shaft at Phillips and was killed,
Corning corn Is being cut up and shocked
for fodder on account Of the drouth.
Charles johnson, a miner, was killed at the
Garnar coal mine at Des MONIES Monday.
Many mills In the state have been obliged
to shut cdown on account OF the scarcity Of
water.
William Relander, the S~alvatlonist, was
finally discharged by the Council Bluffs
justice,
w. s. Harvey, American express messenger
at Dubuque, died from excessive drinking Of
ice water.
Davenport wants a street railway across the
government bridge between that city aud
Rock Island.
The new Congregational church edifce at
lows Falls is to have a fine auditorium with
circular seats.
1 Natural gas sends up a burning fame from
a forty seven foot well In Fulton township,
near Muscstine.
The Dubuque city council VIII invite Pres
ident Cleveland to witness the dedication of
he high bridge.
The dry goods house OF NJ. Carroll, Daven.
port, closed Monday liabilities $i2 1000, assets
about the same.
Natural gas sends up a burning fame from
a forty-seven foot well In Fulton township,
near Muscatine.
TIL convention OF the iostmasters OF the
Fourth congressional district will be held at
Ossian, August 25.
Dubuque boasts of having on exhibition the
biggest bull frog In the state. 1t weighs over
a pound, says the Times.
Mss Carrie Byrne, school superintendent Il
Plymouth cc unity, reports the schools In that
codnty In Il prosperous condition.
Ira Rich, one Of the "Greybeard" soldiers
in. the war Of the rebellion, died at Iowa City
Monday, aged seventy'four years.
William $. Collins, one Of the pioneer set
tiers OF Davenport, died Tuesday, having at
tanned the age of eighty two years.
Ida Grove has secured pledges 10 the
amount Of $40, coo as a bonus for tn. location
Of the Methodist college of northwestern
Iowa.
Governor Larrabee has offered $500 re-
ward for the arrest and conviction Of n man
in Webster county, charged with the crime OF
arson.
Tuesday Hon. Henry w. Rothel, of Keokus,
ex-srate senator, was appointed superinten-
dent of the Deaf and Dumb institute at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Marengo claims advantages as a summer
resort that are not obtained In a seven by-nine
room Immediately unde the roof Of a summer
resort hotel.
Special religious interest is reported at the
camp meeting at Oskaloosa. There is a good
harvest OF new converts, and backsiiders are
being reclaimed.
There Is a good prospect OF having a horse
importing and breeding establishment near
Spencer. A stock company for that purpose
win be formed.
The Governors GraIs OF Dubuque are
proud Of their invitation TO act as the govern
or's escort to the Philadelphia centenIin Of
the constitution.
Henry w. Rothert, OF Keokuk, ex-state
senator from Lee county, was appointed
superintendent of the deaf and dumb institute
at Council Bluffs.
The slaughter house aud rendering house
at Cedar Rapids was burned at 6 O'Clock
Tues day morning. The boilers were saved
and everything else.
3 A reunion OF Smiths will be held at Webster
City September II. Webster CITY Is a good
place, but hasn't z, cahontas greater claims
on he Smith fsmily.
The people Of Manchester row begin TO
think that the Illinois Central Ia really be-
hind the project to build a road from Cedar
Rapids to Manchester.
The Republican convention at Algona de-
manded a rigid enforcement of the Interstate
mme law and a reduction Of railroad
fare to two cents q mile.
The county attorney has notified the dis
pensers OF beverages a. Manswa that they
must cease selling beer at the lake, at the
beach and at the hotel.
The village blacksmith at Wilton broke
from the excessive heat, and in I is
Of bodily weakness and mental &c.
preston committed suicide.
William Ruelande, the sslvationist, was
held to an appearance, at the distr!c. court al
Council Bluff. He is out on bail, The Globe
,alls IL a serio-religious female.
ID. II. Gilmore, a Council Bluffs man, left
hat city for Omaha last Tuesday, attending
10 return the same evening. He had been
twenty years and had never been
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